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Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy
Title
Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy / Melissa Hope Ditmore.
ISBN
9780807006771
0807006777
9780807006795
Publication
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]
Physical Description
xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-from the stories of its survivors"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Ditmore, Melissa Hope. Unbroken chains Boston : Beacon Press, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Young Americans on traveling sales crews
Sex and labor in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
In the devil's garden
Indenture, slavery, and contract labor in agriculture
From slavery to prison and peonage
Trafficking into domestic and care work today
The history of exploitation in domestic work
Contemporary trafficking cases in industry and infrastructure
Slavery and prison labor in industry and infrastructure
Flor's story
Prostitution of enslaved and indentured women
Morality in immigration restrictions
The Mann Act and "white slavery"
Twenty-first-century efforts to combat human trafficking
What kind of help is truly helpful?
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